Al-Itihaad al-Islamiya (AIAI; Arabic: الاتحاد الإسلامي, lit. 'The Islamic Union') was an Islamist politico-military group in Somalia. Formed in 1983 through...

May 2015) was a Somali Islamist who was a senior leader within al-Itihaad al-Islamiya (AIAI) and the Islamic Courts Union (ICU). He later founded the...

start of the Civil War, beginning with Al-Itihaad al-Islamiya from 1991. After the effective dissolution of Al-Itihaad in 1997, he became the head of an Islamic...

2017 Al-Ittihad, Ramallah, a town in the Palestinian territories Al-Itihaad al-Islamiya, an Islamist militant group in Somalia that was active from 1992...

erupted near Kenya's border city of Mandera during clashes between Al-Itihaad al-Islamiya (AIAI) and the SNF, backed by Ethiopian Air Force helicopter gunships...

region, primarily the Ogaden National Liberation Front (ONLF) and Al-Itihaad Al-Islamiya (AIAI). The war in the region began in 1992, when the Ethiopian...

by a variety of Somali Islamic groups within the city. Notably, Al-Itihaad al-Islamiya, a prominent Somali Islamist militant organization that had previously...

but also to the older al-Ittihad al-Islamiya, a group founded on the tenets of Salafism and opposition to clannism. Many early al-Shabaab leaders had also...

Leaders: Hassan Dahir Aweys, Abdullahi Ali Afrah (aasbaro) Hassan Abdullah Hersi al-Turki Area of Operations: Southwest (Ras Kamboni, Luuq) Religious Affiliations:Sunni...

Organizations listed by the United Nations Security Council ISIL (Da'esh) and Al-Qaida Sanctions Committee. Below is the list of organizations that have officially...

traveled to Nairobi, Kenya to meet with leaders of al-Itihaad al-Islamiya[citation needed], an al-Qaeda-aligned Somali group, who had requested money...

fought side by side against UNOSOM forces. Somali fighters from Al-Itihaad al-Islamiya also joined the battle. On the morning of 3 October 1993, a locally...

al-Quaida". Archived from the original on 4 March 2017. Thomas Joscelyn (19 November 2014). "UN recognizes ties between Ansar al Sharia in Libya, al Qaeda"...

existing Somali political entities in the Ogaden, the ONLF and Al-Itihaad Al-Islamiya (AIAI), organized themselves into different constituencies across...

forces to successfully expel an Islamist extremist group linked to Al-Itihaad al-Islamiya that had taken over Bosaso, a prominent port city and the commercial...

known as Ali Dheere, is the head spokesman for the Somali militant group Al-Shabaab, and a member of the group’s supreme council. Accounts of Ali Mohamed...

chairman of the group. Later became Al-Shabaab's spiritual leader. Advance of the Islamic Courts Union Al-Itihaad al-Islamiya Al-Shabaab (Somalia) Islamic Courts...

safest areas for much of the 1990s. The militant religious group al-Itihaad al-Islamiya (AIAI) also rose to power in the region later, taking over the city...

Khartoum in Sudan. He worked for the al-Haramain Foundation in the early 1990s before joining Al-Itihaad al-Islamiya and fought with them until their disintegration...

The currently active jihadist groups in Somalia derive from the Al-Itihaad al-Islamiya group active during the 1990s. In July 2006, a Web-posted message...

the School of Informatics at the University of Edinburgh, 2019- al-Itihaad al-Islamiya, a Somali Islamist group AiAi, a character in the Super Monkey Ball...

full-scale civil war. During 1992, the Ethiopian government attacked Al-Itihaad al-Islamiya (AIAI), a rising Islamist political-military group in the Ogaden...

police apprehended a suspect whom they claimed was a member of Al-Itihaad al-Islamiya. Based on the 2007 Census conducted by the Central Statistical Agency...

city during 1993. A major Somali Islamist militant organization, Al-Itihaad al-Islamiya, also began participating in the insurgency against UN forces in...

existing Somali political entities in the Ogaden, the ONLF and Al-Itihaad Al-Islamiya (AIAI), organized themselves into different constituencies across...

Mogadishu and other Somali cities and that they have strong links to Al-Itihaad al-Islamiya." In July 2003, at the Somali National Reconciliation Conference...

claimed Jama supported Al-Itihaad Al-Islamiya. In January 2002, Ethiopia intervened again, accusing Jama of harboring members of Al-Itihaad—a claim Jama denied...

on Terror' to justify the operation and claimed Jama supported Al-Itihaad Al-Islamiya. Fighting broke out between forces loyal to Yusuf and Jama during...

Mahaz al-Itihaad al-Islamiya Alliance for the Re-liberation of Somalia Harakat al-Shabaab Mujahedeen Hizbul Islam Islamic Courts Union Jabhatul Islamiya Mu'askar...

pre-attack interview published by Al-Shabaab, Abdule states to have been a member of the Al-Qaida-affiliated Al-Itihaad al-Islamiya (AIAI) group for thirteen...